Episodes

  • Huntsville's building boom isn't about apartments anymore — The Rocket City Brief

    Huntsville's building boom isn't about apartments anymore — The Rocket City Brief
    Jul 12 2026
    Huntsville's building boom rotated in 2025: apartments cooled toward their long-run average while single-family lot approvals hit an eighteen-year high and commercial permits clustered on the western edge of Cummings Research Park — plus the City optioned about 516 acres for future industry.
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    4 mins
  • Huntsville's downtown tax district and the penny funding the Von Braun Center — The Rocket City Brief

    Huntsville's downtown tax district and the penny funding the Von Braun Center — The Rocket City Brief
    Jul 11 2026
    Huntsville's City Council approved a new one percent hotel lodging tax and a downtown tax increment financing district — TIF 9 — to fund a roughly two hundred million dollar Von Braun Center expansion, with no general tax-rate increase. Here's the plain-English breakdown of how the financing machine works and exactly who pays.
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    4 mins
  • Six Billion Dollars: Why Eli Lilly's Alabama Campus Is Huntsville's Contractor Signal

    Six Billion Dollars: Why Eli Lilly's Alabama Campus Is Huntsville's Contractor Signal
    Jul 8 2026
    Alabama just landed its largest-ever private investment: a six-billion-dollar Eli Lilly pharmaceutical campus at I-565 and Greenbrier Parkway. We break down what 450 permanent jobs, three thousand construction slots, and a six-year build window mean for Huntsville operators.
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    4 mins
  • Missile Testing Reinvented: The $97.4M Redstone Contract Operators Need to Know

    Missile Testing Reinvented: The $97.4M Redstone Contract Operators Need to Know
    Jul 4 2026
    AeroVironment just won a $97.4M, 3-year contract to build GENESIS — a next-generation hardware-in-the-loop missile defense testing system at Redstone Arsenal. We break down what three years of integration work means for local contractors in facilities, mechanical systems, and technical staffing.
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    4 mins
  • The Huntsville Squeeze

    The Huntsville Squeeze
    Jun 30 2026
    Huntsville just committed $45 million to prepare Redstone Arsenal for the permanent home of U.S. Space Command — one piece of a defense-and-aerospace hiring wave headed for the city. At the same time, a 2025 apartment over-build has quietly flipped Huntsville into a renter's market. This brief connects those two facts into one question: does the incoming demand wave absorb the glut — and what does it mean for renters, landlords, and buyers right now?
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    4 mins